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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Ted catches pneumonia?
(a) Isabel contacts William.
(b) He returns to Blakestable for his sister to nurse him.
(c) Isabel hires Mary-Ann to nurse him.
(d) Isabel is frail and unable to care fo him.

2. How does William remember Rosie?
(a) Only vaguely.
(b) As fresh and innocent.
(c) Alive and passionate.
(d) As a madonna figure.

3. Where does Rosie take William?
(a) To the horse track.
(b) To see Ted.
(c) To meet her daughter.
(d) To join a whist game.

4. What is the Bear and Key where William stays like?
(a) Grubby and unchanged.
(b) Clean but sparsely furnished.
(c) Newly remodeled and elegant.
(d) In a total state of disrepair.

5. Who visits Ted and Amy's house while William is there?
(a) Two Germans.
(b) Two Americans.
(c) Two Italians.
(d) A Russian.

6. What does Rosie say will happen in a hundred years?
(a) People will revere William as a poet.
(b) They will all be dead and none of this will matter.
(c) People will live the way they wish.
(d) Women will be as free as men to enjoy sex without censure.

7. What does William notice for the first time about Rosie?
(a) She is much older than he.
(b) She has full lips.
(c) She has bad teeth.
(d) She is pretty.

8. With what motif is William's old room decorated?
(a) Religious.
(b) Sports.
(c) No particular motif.
(d) Literature.

9. How does Isabel respond to Ted's marriage?
(a) She hopes he will now be able to write more.
(b) She is happy for him.
(c) She is upset.
(d) She hates him for it.

10. What does Ted seem to be doing?
(a) Getting ready to snatch a piece of fame.
(b) Broadening his horizons.
(c) William has no sense about it.
(d) Getting ready to divorce Rosie.

11. Who is Mrs. Hudson?
(a) William's first landlady.
(b) A friend of Ted and Rosie.
(c) The next-door neighbor where Williams lives.
(d) A friend of his aunt and uncle.

12. What does Ted's study smell like?
(a) The scent of flowers as Amy keeps several bouquets in it.
(b) The cigars he used to smoke.
(c) The pipe he used to smoke.
(d) A musty museum.

13. Of what does Isabel convince Ted?
(a) That she knows what is best for him.
(b) That he does not need Rosie.
(c) That women are dying to marry him.
(d) That he is the greatest writer of his day.

14. What is the reaction to the book he publishes?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Acclaim.
(c) Outrage.
(d) Indifference.

15. Where is William a medical student?
(a) St. Luke's Hospital in London.
(b) St. Hippocrate's Hospital in London.
(c) St. Joeseh's Hospital in Paris.
(d) He never studies medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lionel Hillier?

2. What do Roy and Amy deplore?

3. With whom does Ted spend most of his time at the Saturday gatherings?

4. What does the Bear and Key rent William?

5. What does Roy write for Isabel?

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